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I went to strawberry today also. I applied sun screen twice during the day and still got a sunburn. We fished Mosquito Bay,between the three of us we landed about 18 cutts that where all in the slot. We where spotting most of the fish in 25' of water catching them on the bottom and suspened. As well as the ice is holding up I dout that it will be ice free by May 1st.
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Hey MGB,
We were up there as well. I peeked over the hill to Mosquito bay, and I saw a few guys out there, I guess it was you. We fished back by Renegade. All but 2 or 3 of our fish came off of the bottom today. Sure was nice weather though.
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We also spent the day up there in the clear air. But I can tell you this much: we had the 70 sun block along, and re-applied it 3 or 4 times. We got smoked so bad last weekend, we're still trying to heal up!
Our group just had to hoof it, so we weren't able to go too far away from the marina. But I did see a group across the way, all by themselves. Guess that was you, FN2DM.
While not catching as many as we did last weekend, still got into some quality cutts. And we also saw the fish cops. I asked them if they'd caught any violators today, and they said only one. So I guess the word on the slot is getting around some what. Still saw one clown using 2 poles, because he had a second pole permit. But didn't believe us when we told him that it's no good at the 'Berry. Amazing ...
We may try at least one more run, since the surface is holding up so well.
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Wish I could of joined you , but didn't find out till about 11:00am today I could of gone today . My money is on the ice coming off after Mothers day . I remember ice off a week before memorial day weekend . I may go tomorrow , early .
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Thanks all for the reports. It sounds like there is almost no degradation of the ice up there. Excellent! I will be up there next Saturday. (Ugh, I had to work today. [pirate][pirate][pirate]) I supposed it to be my last hardwater trip, but it sounds like that may be premature.
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I've never ice fished in April before, but I'm planning at least one more run ...
My sons-in-law won't let me put all the gear away, they've had so much fun up there!
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